In the pantheon of Victorian literature, Anne Brontë stands as perhaps the most underestimated literary genius of her era. Born into a family that would produce three of the nineteenth century's most celebrated novelists, Anne has long lived in the shadow of her more famous sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Yet this youngest Brontë sister, who lived only twenty-nine years (1820-1849), created works of startling moral com…
“I would not be understood as asserting that the faults and follies of mankind are the proper subjects for ridicule.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
John Ruskin was born in London on 8 February 1819, the only child of John James Ruskin and Margaret Cox Ruskin. He would become one of the nineteenth century’s most forceful and distinctive voices: an art critic, social thinker, lecturer, draftsman, historian of architecture, environmental observer, moral philosopher, and writer of prose whose rhythms often approached poetry. Though he is not chiefly remembered as a…
“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
Neighbourhood:
Nature Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
